Authors
Richard Strachan is a former bookseller, who lives in Edinburgh with his family. His short fiction h …
Zoë Strachan was born in Irvine and grew up in Kilmarnock in Ayrshire. She moved to Glasgow in 1992, …
Charles Stross, 48, is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The a …
Charles Stross is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The author …
Maud Sulter was a visual artist, writer, playwright and cultural historian. She was born in 1960 in …
Ann Swinfen spent her childhood partly in the English Midlands and partly on the east coast of Ameri …
Aline Templeton grew up in the East Neuk of Fife and was educated at St Leonards School, St Andrews …
Ruth Thomas is a novelist and short-story writer. Her first story collection was shortlisted for the …
Author Alice Thompson was born in Edinburgh, and studied English at Oxford University. Her first art …
Francis George Thompson was born in Stornoway in 1931, and after a career as an electrical engineer, …
Professor Derick S. Thomson, or Ruaraidh MacThòmais in his native Gaelic, was a poet, publisher and …
Marion grew up in the City of Dundee, now home to the magnificent V&A Museum. Always a keen wri …
Francine Toon grew up in Sutherland and Fife, Scotland. Her poetry, written as Francine Elena, has a …
David Torrance is a constitutional specialist at the House of Commons Library and a widely published …
Jeff Torrington wrote just two novels, but his first, (Swing Hammer Swing! won the Whitbread award i …
Born John Reid on a farm at Rathen in Aberdeenshire, David Toulmin was a farm labourer from the age …
Nigel Tranter was born in Glasgow, but schooled at George Heriot’s in Edinburgh. His childhood inter …
Alexander Trocchi was a prolific writer of novels and essays, of porn (for the Olympia Press in Pari …
Tim Turnbull’s collection Stranded in Sub-Atomica was nominated for the Felix Dennis award for best …
Zoe Venditozzi was born in 1975 and grew up in a small village in North East Fife. After graduating …
Shola von Reinhold is a Scottish socialite and writer. Shola has been published in the Cambridge Lit …
Wining a Somerset Maugham award for Morvern Callar, the Encore Award for These Demented Lands and th …
Douglas Watt was born in Edinburgh and brought up there and in Aberdeen. He was educated at Edinburg …
Roseanne Watt is a writer, filmmaker and musician from Shetland. Her dual-language debut collection, …
Violent, loud, obscene; funny, honest, intelligent – Irvine Welsh’s literature is all this and more. …
After Graduating from Glasgow University, Louise Welsh realised she had serious aspirations to becom …
Todd is a writer lucky enough to have appeared in newspapers, magazines, agencies and online outlets …
Marianne Wheelaghan is from Leith, Edinburgh. She left home when she was seventeen and lived in Engl …
Brian Whittingham left school at 15 and entered into the world of John Brown’s shipyard as an appren …
Martin Widmark is the bestselling Swedish children’s author of over 100 books. His titles consistent …
Luke Williams was born in 1977, and raised in Fife. He studied at Edinburgh University, and later re …
Alette J Willis is a storyteller and winner of the Kelpies Prize for her début novel. She was born i …
Lorraine is an award-winning writer, biologist, herder of cats and drinker of tea. Having spent year …
Kirsti has a Ph.D in Scottish Literature from the University of St Andrews and received a New Writer …
Olga Wojtas is an unconventional – and very witty – writer of postmodern crime fiction whose surreal …
Andrew Wolffe was born and raised in Gatehouse of Fleet, south west Scotland. A graduate of Edinburg …
James Yorkston is a singer-songwriter and author from the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Since signing …
Matthew Zajac grew up in Inverness and studied drama at Bristol University. He had worked as an acto …
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Julia Kelly
Julia is a mother, writer and teacher. She has been longlisted for The Mslexia Novel Prize, The Exeter Novel Prize, Penguin WriteNow and the Bath Novel Award. In 2021 she won the Blue Pencil First Novel Award. Having grown up in a house without televis …
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